More Tyrannocytes Showcase

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Two more Tyrannocyte Conversions painted and ready to join my Stinger Hive Fleet...

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Tyranid Time Again, first batch progress

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Just a quick update on the first batch of Nids in my challenge to finish my Tyranid army again! Things are going well and I have put down the first two coats ready for the pop layers, which has to be the most fun part of my paint scheme, more to come soon...

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Tyranid Time Again!

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Well yes, I did fully finish my Tyranid army at the end of last year, but as expected, I seem to have accumulated a few more Nids over the last couple of months! The year of the Wolf is still on, and painting them is my number one priority, but I want to keep on top of the Nids and not let the unpainted minis get out of hand!

I plan on doing them in two batches, the first will be my magnetised Harpy/Hive Crone and Toxicrene/Maleceptor, of which I have linked up the magnetising tutorials I did if your interested. Along with them will be my first new Broodlord and two more bases for my next Tyrannocyte conversions. More to come on batch two, as I still need to build them, but for now, lets get the first batch painted!

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Tyrannocyte Conversion Showcase

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Here is my painted conversion of turning my old Mycetic Spores into a Tyrannocyte. I am really happy how it turned out and I think it will be very playable on the table. This is just the first of eight pods I have, so lots more conversion to go yet!

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Tyrannocyte Conversion Finished

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Here is my final conversion to turn my old Mycetic Spores into a Tyrannocyte. It isn't too far off the original model now, so hopefully I won't get any complaints. Let me know what you think and I will will get it painted up soon...

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Tyrannocyte Conversion (part 2)

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Following on from my first post of converting up my old Pods to look like the new model, and I have done some more work on the tentacles on the base. I plan on painting the tentacles black with yellow tips, so to give me some extra colour to them I added a few dots for me to also paint yellow...

I then started work on the guns, cutting off the front sections of some Death Spitters and Barbed Stranglers I had. Adding magnets to the ends. I then made some green stuff sockets on the pod for the guns to fit into...

Hopefully these will look pretty cool once I have them painted up, and I plan on making a Venom Canon option as well...

Here is how it is looking at the moment. I am going to add a few tentacles to the sides at the bottom to finish it off. I think I will magnetise these on as well to keep storage problems to a minimal. More to come in the next update...

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Tyrannocyte Conversion (part 1)

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I have been spending some time lately converting up my old Mega Blok Mycetic Spores into the new Tyrannocytes. I have eight of these pods, and I want to convert up at least four of them, but first of all I need to work out how to do it!

First off all I got some 100mm bases from eBay, £4.00 for six, so not too bad at all. I then got myself a plastic tube, which was from the inside of a finished paper roll (till roll). I then glued the tube to the base and started work on some green stuff. I don't have a tentacle maker, so it was the old fashioned rolling on a table for me. I plan on revisiting them again and adding in a bit of detail, but I think they look pretty good as they are...

For storage reasons, I wanted to magnetise the pod on, rather than gluing it, and in the end, this also dictated me not putting tentacles onto the pod itself, well, that and I didn't want to have to repaint anything. One magnet in the rod and some green stuff to give me some support with a magnet on the base of the pod, and that was that bit done...

Now all I have to do is work out how to add on some guns and maybe a top section. Updates on that soon, but for now, this is how it is looking so far...

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Triple Mawloc List!

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As many of you know, I am a big fan of the Mawloc model, and I have had a double Mawloc Loc List for some time now. Having recently painted my third and final Mawloc, and with Drop Pods back in, I thought it was time to redo my list and update it to a Triple Loc List for 7th Edition.

First of all, in an ideal world, I would like to swap out the Hive Guard for a Hive Crone, but I still have to build and paint mine, so for now the Hive Guard is in. They will sit behind or beside the ADL along with the Tervigon, Gants and Venomthropes Blob. The two Flyrants will move on up and then the three Locs will hit. This list is built for fun and to get three of my favourite minis on the table, but please let me know what you think and all suggestion are most welcome...

HQ
1 x Flyrant/Devourers (230)
1 x Flyrant/Devourers (230)

TROOPS
1 x Tervigon/Regeneration (225)
30 x Termagants (120)
20 x Termagants/14x Devourers/6x  Fleshborer/Pod/Strangler (236)
19 x Termagants/14x Devourer/5x  Fleshborer/Pod/Strangler (232)

ELITES
2 x Venomthropes (90)
3x Hive Guard (165)

HEAVY
1 x Mawloc (140)
1 x Mawloc (140)
1 x Mawloc (140)

FORTIFICATION
1 x Aegis Defence Line (50)

1998 points

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